Chandra Pulla Reddy

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Chandra Pulla Reddy (1917 – November 9, 1984, Calcutta) was an India communist leader. Chandra Pulla Reddy was born in 1917 at Velugodu village in what is currently the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. A leading activist in Indian freedom struggle as a studenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chandra_Pulla_Reddy&action=edit Edit this page of Guindy Engineering College of then Madras (present Chennai) against British colonial rule. He was dismissed from the college. Later he was the Kurnool district secretary of united Communist Party of India (CPI). Later he edited the party organ Janasakthi.

C.P. Reddy became one of the main leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries. In 1971 he led a split from the APCCCR. Reddy began organising armed struggles the Khammam and Warangal areas, without the approval of the APCCCR leadership. Reddy then conducted self-criticism. In December 1969, the APCCCR leadership was arrested. In their absence Reddy strengthened his role inside the organisation. The leadership sent a letter of criticism from jail against the line implemented by Reddy. Effectively the organisation faced a split, with Reddy leading his own APCCR as of 1971.[1]

In 1975 his group merged with the CPI(ML) led by Satyanarayan Singh. In 1980, he broke away from the party, forming a CPI(ML).[2]

He died on November 9, 1984 at Calcutta due to a massive heart attack.

His Selected writings appeared so far in seven volumes and more to come.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist). Indian Revolutionary Movement – Some Lessons and Experiences; Political, Organisational and Movement Review 1967-88; Adopted by the First Regular Central Conference of UCCRI(ML), April 1989. Vijayawada: Red Flag Publications, 1989. p. 68-69.
  2. ^ Karat, Prakash. Naxalism today.